Joel Salatin addressed a full auditorium of Cornell students, faculty, staff and growers Thursday, January 25th. His talk "In-sourcing out food: scaling production and distribution for local viability" was an engaging account of Joel's innovative work at his family farm, Polyface Farms in Swoope, VA. Joel described his pasture-based multi-species livestock system that combines new technology in the form of mobile electric fencing and centuries old wisdom of animal husbandry.
After the talk, Joel addressed another full house Cornell Dining's "Farm to You" dinner for local growers, part of their local produce initiative. Joel described his own entrance into direct marketing with restaurants and how it has been a successful enterprise for his farm and for local chefs.
The talk was sponsored by NWAEG at Cornell (funded in part by the GPSAFC), Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell Small Farms Program, Cornell Dining, Cornell Beef Extension Program and Cornell Orchards.
Video of the talk will be posted soon at www.rso.cornell.edu/nwaeg/
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